I've always loved these "what's in your bag" posts and when I saw that the wonderful Lydia had just done one here (her blog's brill, follow it!), I decided to do a blatant copy!
My bag itself is the Aldo Lanford and it's pretty much the love of my life at the moment, I was looking in the shoes in the sale last month and spotted it on a shelf, and once I'd tried it on I knew I had to have it, despite being at full price! It was only £50 though and I've been buying Primark bags for the last year or so which just break, so this one should last me a while!
I love everything about it, the Chanel style quilt and chain handles, the bow, the studs on the bow, the gold metal details, the front pocket, everything! And super duper bonus, I discovered that the back pocket is the perfect size for a small bottle of alcohol, so I've used it for my handbag vodka and surpassed bouncers with it a couple of times... sshh!
I carry a lot of crap in my bag so I've split it into three pictures, first one being my makeup bag. The clasp on it's broken so a lot of the time most of these items are just floating about in the bag.
I've tried to go in a kind of ordered clockwisey spiral type thing, but I'm assuming you'll be able to put the names to the items anyway!
- lush it started with a kiss lipstain pot
- powder brush from glossybox
- duo eyelash glue
- divaderme lash extender fibres (my favourite thing ever, review here)
- l'oreal volume million lashes mascara
- nail envy
- bourjois 3 second nail polish remover (I carry this and the nail envy in case I get a chip; I have to remove ALL nail polish if this happens)
- revlon colorstay foundation in fresh beige
- bourjois blusher in 03 brun cuvre
- maybelline 10hr tint gloss in endless ruby
- maybelline the falsies black drama mascara
- benefit the porefessional primer mini (I use this on top of my foundation throughout the day instead of powder)
Now for the stuff in the main bag, when I was arranging these I realised some of this stuff should have been in the makeup bag picture but oh well!
*Big breath*
- guerlain my insolence perfume
- a wide tooth comb (so much better on my extensions than a brush, and smaller!)
- passport (for ID, I'm not planning on fleeing the country at any minute)
- robot clipper lighter and mini lilac for back up (dirty smoker, sshhh)
- a hairband. with a bow on
- couldn't take a picture of my phone so I took the case off. it's a panda
- a book (at the moment it's The Final Testament by James Frey; it's brilllliant)
- softlips lipbalm in french vanilla
- bottle opener with corkscrew
- a rechargeable torch that looks like a pig
- a big gold necklace for jewellery emergencies (?!)
- a red pen (because I'm constantly marking my life..?)
- burt's bees hand salve mini pot
- nail glue
- a bar blade (because one bottle opener wasn't enough. and this is cooler)
aaaaaand finally
- ipod classic + headphones
- sunnies (love primark. £2!)
- argan oil for frizz drama throughout the day
- body shop clementine lotion (I also carry a mini lush vanilla dee-lite but I think I've left it at work)
- liz earle skin tonic mini spritzer (sometimes I use this for setting make up, and I just like carrying it around really)
- neal's yard lavender essential oil (in a eucalyptus bottle because me and my mum took half each. I carry lavender around instead of painkillers because it helps headaches and also cuts etc. it's magical)
- debit cards (also a boots, superdrug and debenhams beauty card but I forgot to photograph them. oops)
- card reader (for impromtu money transfers. also I'd lose it otherwise)
- the key (it's like the brighton equivalent of an oyster card. this is my third replacement)
- house key with my super cool corona bottle keyring
- hairclip (theres also loads of kirby grips floating about but I forgot about them)
- and my purse (I've had this since I was about 14. I did have a real wallet but I lost it.)
Good freakin lawwwd! I carry around SO much stuff! There's also normally loads of bits of paper floating around in there but I tidied it up the other day.
I actually can't believe how much stuff I have in my bag!
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